Month: July 2012

13 Authors in Search of their Characters: ‘Making Characters’ day at Winchester Discovery Centre

  Thank you very much to the 13 enthusiastic, hard-working, and lively writers who voluntarily spent 6 hours trapped in a room with me last Saturday – learning as much as I could cram in about characters for fiction. This was my second fiction workshop at Winchester DC (after my Flash Fiction workshop in December), …

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Flame Fever!

Tomorrow (11th July) is Winchester’s big Olympic day: the torch is coming to town. We’re no strangers to flaming torches here. On Bonfire Night we wave thousands of them and generally do our best to burn down the High Street: As this time there’s only one torch and plenty of us to tackle any accidents, …

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Making Characters for Fiction

Making Characters for Fiction Winchester Discovery Centre, Saturday 14th July 10am – 4pm, £25 (£18.50 concessions)   After my Flash Fiction day in December, Winchester Discovery Centre asked me to do another day on fiction in their current brochure. So on Saturday 14th, I will be looking at what I believe is the fundamental skill for …

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In Sickness and In Health

Since the end of May, we’ve been having a strange old time of it at home. Without warning, my wonderful wife was hit with bad pains – she said they were like labour, so I think that’s pretty bad – and our lives since have been dominated by dealing with them, trying to prevent them, and …

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